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AAA 2015 sessions and papers relating to Oceania
The preliminary programme for this year’s annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (18-22 November) in Denver is out and looks great. With my AAA Melanesia Interest Group…
Northern Sea Route? Why not use the northern cycling route instead?
Surely most of us have followed the terrible news about drowning refugees desperate to picture by Mauricio Lima for The New York Times, bicycles from refugees pile up…
Seminar: Media & visual technologies as material culture – course description
Seminar “Media and visual technologies as material culture” by Philipp Budka MA Program CREOLE & MA Program Social & Cultural Anthropology University of Vienna Seminar Description This course…
Summer Roundup: Forums by Deanna Day
Now that the academic year is in full swing, we thought it would be a great time to do a roundup of the work that you may have…
Adam Rosenblatt, “Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity”
Adam Rosenblatt View on Amazon Do dead bodies have human rights? This is one of many fascinating questions Adam Rosenblatt asks in his compelling new book Digging for…
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Hi all, Another busy week…we welcomed two very interesting visitors this week and their talks on social media, protest movements and digital research are posted below.In Development news…
Confessions of a Production assistant
Jong geleerd…? © Christine Urias, via Flickr Creative Commons Door Myrthe van der Vlis Voor mijn bachelorscriptie deed ik onderzoek naar de rol van gender in de…
Practising Visual Methods
The specialisation in Visual Anthropology in Leiden has been ticking along nicely since the 1960s. But recently its popularity has surged, both inside and outside anthropology’s own disciplina…
Practising Visual Methods
The specialisation in Visual Anthropology in Leiden has been ticking along nicely since the 1960s. But recently its popularity has surged, both inside and outside anthropology’s own disciplina…
Photography Context
National Geographic sponsored a photography contest and here is one of the best. The caption reads: “A passerby walks around Ben Youssef Madrasa, an Islamic college in Marrakesh,…
Polanyi: prophete de la fin de l’economie liberale (2008)
http://interventionseconomiques.revues.org/304 Résumés Français English Interest in the work of Karl Polanyi has increased with the coming of neoliberal globalization and it may still increase g…
Pseudonyms 2.0: How Can We Hide Participants’ Identities When They’re on Pinterest?
It has been standard practice in anthropology to change the names of the people and places we analyze, but recently scholars have been questioning the necessity and even…
Blame the Huthis…
Click here for my post on Tigningen about yet another bombing in Aden.
Annie Blazer, “Playing for God: Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry”
Annie Blazer View on Amazon In her new book, Playing for God: Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry (NYU Press, 2015), Annie Blazer shows through archival research and…
Negotiating comparison in ethnographic fieldwork
Anthropology, a discipline dedicated to understanding the full range of human experience from as many perspectives as possible, has always been comparative. This comparative aspect was one of…
What’s wasted in recent buzz around food waste?
Allow me to be more direct. As I suggest in my book The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders (University of California Press, 2015), the…
REDUX: Fear by Numbers: On the rise of Europe’s ‘Illegality Industry’ #BORDERS
It’s no longer all quiet on the western front. In recent years, Europe’s “fight against illegal migration” has alternately been broadcast from the militarised Greek-Turkish border and the…
Necessary Knowledge: Where Denver Anthropologists Drink and Eat
John Brett University of Colorado Denver As a Denver native and passionate eater of foods, what follows is my personal, if a bit quirky, list of places I…
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Futurecasting Anthropology
Futurists are scientists that use data analysis, ethnographic methods and other scientific procedures to design and make predictions about our future. To do this, they do something called…
Eric H. Cline, “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed”
Eric H. Cline View on Amazon It quickly sold out in hardback, and then, within a matter of days, sold out in paperback. Available again as a 2nd…